{"id":376,"date":"2023-10-17T03:41:37","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T03:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/?p=376"},"modified":"2023-11-24T20:15:21","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T20:15:21","slug":"can-listening-to-songs-with-prosocial-lyrics-influence-donating-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/17\/can-listening-to-songs-with-prosocial-lyrics-influence-donating-behavior\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Listening to Songs with Prosocial\u00a0Lyrics Influence Donating Behavior?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>By Brad Bell<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Music is an important part of our lives. \u00a0Many people spend a\u00a0considerable amount of time listening to music. \u00a0Listening to\u00a0music may be beneficial in a number of ways. \u00a0One of the ways\u00a0that it may be beneficial is by increasing helping behavior. \u00a0Could listening to songs with prosocial lyrics increase the\u00a0number of people who make a charitable donation?\u00a0\u00a0In Greitemeyer&#8217;s third study (2009), participants listened to\u00a0songs with prosocial lyrics or songs with neutral lyrics. \u00a0Greitemeyer found that the percentage making a donation to a\u00a0nonprofit was greater for people who listened to songs with prosocial lyrics than for people who listened to neutral lyrics. (1)\u00a0\u00a0Greitemeyer&#8217;s finding concerning the influence of listening to songs with prosocial lyrics can be considered one of the possible\u00a0positive effects of music, and may have important practical\u00a0implications. \u00a0To increase donations, music with prosocial lyrics\u00a0could be played at fundraising events. \u00a0This could be considered\u00a0a creative fundraising idea.<br><br><strong>Notes<\/strong><strong><br><\/strong><strong><br><\/strong>1. \u00a0See the article for other findings.<br><br><strong>References<\/strong><strong><br><\/strong><strong><br><\/strong>Greitemeyer, T. \u00a0(2009). \u00a0Effects of songs with prosocial lyrics on\u00a0prosocial thoughts, affect, and\u00a0behavior. \u00a0<em>Jou<\/em><em>rnal of <\/em><em>Experimental Social Psychology<\/em>,\u00a0<em>45<\/em>, 186-190.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Brad Bell Music is an important part of our lives. \u00a0Many people spend a\u00a0considerable amount of time listening to music. \u00a0Listening to\u00a0music may be beneficial in a number of ways. \u00a0One of the ways\u00a0that it may be beneficial is by increasing helping behavior. \u00a0Could listening to songs with prosocial lyrics increase the\u00a0number of people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/17\/can-listening-to-songs-with-prosocial-lyrics-influence-donating-behavior\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Can Listening to Songs with Prosocial\u00a0Lyrics Influence Donating Behavior?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,16,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fundraising","category-helping-behavior","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}